best music number, best fight
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Bend It Like Beckham
tomtac — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 10:47 AM)
in my opinion . on this dvd I have, the very last deleted scene starts with a closeup of the singer at the wedding, and the music starts. The camera pulls away to show the whole band, and then a group of professional dancers, and THEY start doing their stuff. And then all the family and friends get on the dance floor, and it just looks like a really hot wedding reception. And this goes on for ten or fifteen minutes, with the focus continually changing from one part of the scene to the next.
Probably deleted for reasons of time, but for my money, the best shot of punjabi music and dancing I've ever seen. All the time, I kept remembering that piece from the Trivia section, on how most of these folks weren't professional actors/actresses, but friends and relatives of the director, and how they all had decided to make up for lack of professional skills by just enthusiasm and just throwing themselves into it.
That is the last deleted scene, a great musical number. The next to last deleted scene looks like it is the raw footage of the fight over the camcorder.
I was guessing, as I looked this over, that the stage direction was something like "If you find you're winning, let go and pick another person to yell at or hit or wrestle. Whenever you find yourself free, turn around and grad someone else." It's just something like eight minutes people fighting, then fighting , then fighting. Interesting to watch. -
India_Ana — 11 years ago(August 13, 2014 04:52 PM)
Ooh. Guess I should get/rent the DVD. I've only seen the movie on DirecTV.
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